Miriam Meckel

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Prof. Dr. Miriam Meckel, (born July 18, 1967), is currently Professor for Corporate Communication and Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

2001 Miriam Meckel became the State Secretary at the department of the Premier of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia and government spokeswoman, later on the State Secretary for Europe, International Affairs and Media. From 1999 to 2001 she was a professor for Communication Sciences at the University of Münster in Germany. Her publications include texts on media economics, communication and cyberpolitics.

As a member of international jury of the Development Gateway Foundation of the World Bank she was instrumental in designing the Development Gateway Award (Petersberg Prize).

In November 2001 Meckel received the Cicero Award for best speech in the academia category.

[edit] Publications (extract)

1994: Fernsehen ohne Grenzen? Europas Fernsehen zwischen Integration und Segmentierung
1996: Internationale Kommunikation - eine Einführung
1998: Fernsehnachrichten. Strukturen, Funktionen, Prozesse
1999: Redaktionsmanagement. Ansätze aus Theorie und Praxis
1999: with Klaus Kamps, Patrick Rössler and Werner Gephart: Medien-Mythos? Die Inszenierung von Prominenz und Schicksal am Beispiel von Diana Spencer
2000: with Marianne Ravenstein: Cyberworlds. Computerwelten der Zukunft
2001: Die globale @genda. Kommunikation und Globalisierung
2005: Cyberpolitics and Cyberpolity, Zur Virtualisierung politischer Kommunikation
2007: Das Glück der Unerreichbarkeit, Wege aus der Kommunikationsfalle

[edit] Personal

Meckel lives in St. Gallen, Switzerland and Berlin, Germany. She has been in a long-term relationship with Anne Will, a German television journalist.^[1]^[2]